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has come into prominence in the field of landscape architecture and urban design. On the basis
of landscape itself is a infrastructure that conducts urban flows, it has considered as a medium
for conservation ecosystem functions and providing ecosystem services. Thus, infrastructures
as integrating components in which natural and cultural processes interlace have been turn into
landscape components that create identity to urban environment with their physical appearances
and increase ecological literacy of citizens. The practices that emphasizes landscape as infrast-
ructure in the field of urban design has leveraged landscape urbanism discourse. The prominent
landscape architecture firms such as Field Operations, Turenscape, SWA, StossLU, Groundlab
has contributed to this hybrid field with innovative design solutions and practices. The studies
of Konjian Yu, founder of Turenscape (Saunders, 2012: 17-203), ground on landscape resto-
ration and providing ecosystem services by creating living ecosystems that have the ability
of change and adaptation. While he provides dramatic changes on landscape with minimum
design solutions, he finds smart solutions on using the adaptation ability of local vegetation
and revealing cultural heritage. By integration of
human and natural processes, he provides in-
novative ecological infrastructure samples for water control. The power of the new hybrid and
transdisciplinary field has lied behind the ability of transfer ecological processes to design. At
this point, Translating the knowledge and principles, produced under the guidance of landscape
urbanism and urban ecology into physical form increasingly relies on the use of parametric pro-
cesses, in which a set of variables or parameters is given to a design problem (Hung vd., 2012:
14).
“As a means of developing infrastructures and settlements that are more tightly entwined
with complex ecologies” (Holzman
ve Cantrell, 2014: 709 – 718), parametric technologies have
been needed to mimic complexity and dynamic processes of urban ecosystems. Through per-
formance based parametric simulation tools, designers can produce design solutions by using
digital ecological processes and can test possible impacts and performances design solutions.
“There are no single solutions to working better together in our growing constructed ecologies,
no specific boundaries, no defined shapes, no set forms” (Grose, 2014: 76). Because paramet-
ric technologies facilitate to produce limitless forms and solutions in order that designers can
foresee their impacts. Also parametric technologies facilitate to relate designs with the context
via “design techniques capable of operating across a number of scales” (Weinstock, 2013: 33).
Thus, the technologies assist to bridge between planning and design.
Result: During the recent
years, landscape has come into prominence as the integrative component of urban space. Urban,
natural and social systems interact with energetic syntheses and change each other. On the basis
of innovative discourses of landscape urbanism, urban design actors need to adopt flexible and
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adaptable processes that can response to demands of contemporary cities in order to overcome
environmental and socio-economic problems. Therefore, the researches for improving design
systems have importance rather than generating solely fixed design solutions. A large number
of applications that transfer complexity of urban ecosystems by parametric technologies and
scientific methods have been developed. Determining the relations that shapes urban landscape
pattern will provide unique opportunities to generate new patterns and design systems. The
design and planning disciplines has been on the verge of path-breaking development that will
shift the perspective of urban space and design. The planning and design approach based on the
relational representation of landscape pattern and process will move
the relationality discourse
of parametricism forward. Improving design systems from regional scale to design scale will
reveal the missing link between planning and design. Focusing on interactions of urban land-
scape pattern and process with socio ecological processes will shape future urban environment.